Trump’s New Acting Attorney General Declared There Was ‘No Collusion’ Between Trump and Russia

President Donald Trump‘s new acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker repeatedly denied there was collusion between Trump and Russia and bashed liberals in media appearances on conservative outlets prior to joining the Justice Department.

“The truth is there was no collusion with the Russians and the Trump campaign,” he said in an interview on the Wilkow Majority show, as unearthed by The Daily Beast.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller‘s investigation, which is probing the ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, has yet to deliver its findings.

He also pointed fingers at the left.

“There was interference by the Russians into the election, but that is not collusion with the campaign. That’s where the left seems to be just combining those two issues,” he opined in a 2017 gig uploaded to YouTube by the Foundation for Accountability & Civic Trust, where he was Executive Director at the time.

He also said this: “The last thing they want right now is the truth to come out, and the fact that there’s not a single piece of evidence that demonstrates that the Trump campaign had any illegal or even improper relationships with the Russians. It’s that simple.”

The Daily Beast also noted that Whitaker’s appearance on a far-right outlet to hit liberals was not isolated.

“The majority of Whitaker’s media appearances focused on the promotion of one argument: Liberals in government are working to undermine Americans in a variety of troubling and unproven ways,” the Beast reported. “And no one is a bigger threat than Mueller.”

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